Submitting Institution: Sheffield Hallam University

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Summary of the impact

Improving the quality of school leadership has been a key priority for
both New Labour and
Coalition education policy (see for example `The Importance of Teaching'
White paper) since 1997.
This led to the establishment of the National College for School
Leadership (NC) in 2000. Between
2004 and 2009 the NC commissioned six external evaluations of its
programmes from Sheffield
Hallam University (total value: £276k). The studies have impacted on the range
and quality of the
College's provision and hence have on the quality of leadership in
schools by enabling the NC to:

take decisions about programme continuation and development by
assessing the
effectiveness of programmes: their contribution to school improvement
and value for
money;

redesign specific programmes to meet system and individual
leadership development
needs by enabling the NC to understand factors influencing
programme outcomes

take strategic decisions about its portfolio of courses and
patterns of delivery by providing a
range of evaluation studies that placed individual programmes within the
broader context of
leadership development needs and provision.

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

This case study describes the research pathway and impact of a behaviour
change DVD designed to increase physical activity in sedentary individuals
in deprived communities. Developed as part of a randomised controlled
trial with the National Institute for Health Research's Health Technology
Assessment programme (HTA), together with supporting research expertise,
the DVD is now part of NHS/local authority commissioned standard care in
Barnsley and has reached over 7,000 individuals and families. Service
evaluation data confirm the DVD has significantly improved the
cardiovascular risk profiles of users and contributed to a population
level rise in physical activity in Barnsley.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Summary Impact Type

Health

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

Ehiasarian and Hovsepian of the Materials and Engineering Research
Institute (MERI) have achieved significant economic impact through
industrial uptake of their innovations in High Power Impulse Magnetron
Sputtering (HIPIMS). Exploiting these innovations, HIPIMS treatments have
been used by manufacturers to enhance the surface properties of millions
of pounds worth of products. Applications include industrial blades,
components within jet turbines, replacement hip joints, metallised
semiconductor wafers and satellite cryo-coolers. Patents based on
Ehiasarian and Hovsepian's research have achieved commercial success. In
the REF impact period, HIPIMS machines equipped to deliver MERI''s HIPIMS
surface pre-treatment have achieved sales of over £5m, and income
generated through SHU's HIPIMS-related licences has totalled £403,270.
In 2010 Ehiasarian's group established the Joint Sheffield Hallam
University-Fraunhofer IST HIPIMS Research Centre, the first such
Centre in the UK. This has broadened the industrial uptake of MERI's
HIPIMS technologies and stimulated a network of sub-system providers.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

Summary Impact Type

Technological

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

Interdisciplinary work by microbiologist Smith TJ and materials
science collaborators has led to (i) the development of novel
environmentally friendly coatings for anti-corrosion and anti-biofouling
applications that have attracted attention across diverse industries; (ii)
the development of a platform technology that includes an antimicrobial
coating currently under investigation for use on orthopaedic prostheses
and (iii) associated work quantifying elution of antibiotics from
orthopaedic cement in clinical use. The research has been disseminated via
journal publications and patents have been obtained. Impact is evidenced
by commercial interest, which has led to collaborative field trials under
an EPSRC follow-on fund grant and contract research and consultancy funded
by industry and the NHS.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Biological Sciences

Summary Impact Type

Technological

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

Advanced practice roles in nursing (APN roles) have been developed widely
across a range of healthcare settings and organisational boundaries in
response to government policy directives. A programme of research has been
undertaken to generate robust evidence of the contribution of APN roles to
healthcare. Research outputs include a theoretical framework to evaluate
the impact of these roles. This framework has been used to underpin the
development of a practical toolkit to assist practitioners to demonstrate
their impact on patients, staff and the organisations in which they work.
Beneficiaries include policymakers, professional organisations and NHS
providers and individual practitioners.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Medical and Health Sciences: Nursing, Public Health and Health Services

Summary of the impact

This case study presents the impact of two book chapters, one book and an
extended journal article written by Professor Matthew Stibbe on related
aspects of gender relations, mobilisation for war, and wartime captivity
in twentieth-century Germany. The Weimar and Nazi periods continue to be
extremely popular subjects at all levels of the education system. Through
sixth-form master classes, A/AS-level and GCSE day conferences, and a
magazine article aimed at sixth-formers and their teachers, Stibbe has
used his research findings and profile to influence the way that modern
German history is understood by school students, taught by school
teachers, and presented to school audiences by professional actors,
examiners and textbook writers.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

History

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

Community cohesion emerged as a distinct policy agenda in the aftermath
of the 2001 disturbances in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham and was
subsequently shaped by events including the London bombings of 2005 and
large-scale migration from the EU and beyond. Researchers in the Centre
for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) have delivered a
programme of research and evaluation exploring cohesion and the
effectiveness of service responses. Beneficiaries have included government
departments, devolved administrations and other local, regional and
national public agencies. Awareness and understanding have been
sensitised, lessons learnt have informed strategy, and guidance has
directed improvements in practice.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Summary of the impact

This case study describes the impact of research undertaken within
Business and Management on the ownership, governance and management of
co-operatives, charities and social enterprises. It describes how
developing the concept of communitarian pluralism led to changes
in the management and teaching of social enterprise locally, nationally
and internationally. We show the impact on professionals, and lecturers
and students in other HEIs. We provide evidence that impact activities
changed the way organisations and consultancy bodies conceptualise social
enterprise, and how this catalysed the formation of an association to
advance communitarian pluralist design principles.

Submitting Institution

Sheffield Hallam University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Studies In Human Society: Policy and AdministrationLaw and Legal Studies: Law

Summary of the impact

The Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CESR) has developed new
methods to allow accurate 3D measurement. These methods have evolved from
lab-based to in-situ systems allowing real world measurements
using multi-camera systems, object tracking, signal processing and planar
calibration. This research has had four main types of impact:

the implementation of camera-based analysis systems embedded within
Olympic teams in preparation for London 2012 and Rio 2016;

the implementation of systems at the International Tennis Federation
(ITF) to allow that organisation to monitor the game of tennis and set
its rules;

the transfer of knowledge and systems to the commercial and health
sectors;

Summary of the impact

This case study focuses on impact achieved through the public engagement
programme of the Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) Readerships and
Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection. This collection, of
1000 early editions of popular fiction, was initiated by English academics
and Information Specialists in 2009, and stemmed from research into
popular fiction, readerships and hierarchies of literary taste. The
programme has specifically:

Preserved and opened up to the public a neglected cultural and
material heritage

Enhanced cultural enrichment and personal development in South
Yorkshire

Brought a new regional community of readers into being to read
critically popular fiction from the past and to create a scholarly
resource

Created a new national and international community of such readers
through its blog

Initiated a programme of co-produced research with community
readers/interviewers/ interviewees